Lot 11
Samuel Walters (1811-1882)
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Provenance:
Ex. Coll. Betty Mather (née Molson) of Westmount, PQ;
By descent to the present Private Collection, Toronto
Note:
Tuskar Rock is a group of rocks topped by a lighthouse 11 kilometres (6.8 miles) off the southeast coast of County Wexford, Ireland.
Samuel Walters was the best known of the ship portrait painters in Liverpool, England. For much of the 19th century, Liverpool was the busiest port in Europe and was the site of a wealthy ship building community with an appetite for ship portraits.